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DIED. IVAN ILLICH, 76, social critic and onetime Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals of making people sicker. He left the priesthood after the Vatican called him "politically immoral...
...tentative little quaver. "I can make it through the rain, I can stand up once again," she sings. Never mind that Barry Manilow used these approximate lyrics in 1980's I Made It Through the Rain; Carey herself turned in almost the exact same vocal performance on 1993's Hero...
...Review: Zhang Yimou's Hero...
...quarter-century, from early Bruce Lee to late Jackie Chan, martial arts was the pulse to which Hong Kong films ticked and kicked. Those were expressions of the industry's vital adolescence. Hero shows how the same vitality can serve a thoughtful, resonant, mainland maturity. This is a story of noble insurgence against noble fidelity, and of the ways love may find its fulfillment only in death. Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in "mere" genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece...
...Review: Zhang Yimou's Hero...